Physics case for axions and other WISPs. Andreas Ringwald (DESY)
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1 Physics case for axions and other WISPs. Andreas Ringwald (DESY) Mini-workshop on searches for new particles with high power lasers, Forschungszentrum Jülich/Institut für Kernphysik, 24./25. Oktober 2012
2 Particles beyond the Standard Model?! > Standard Model (SM) of particle physics describes basic properties of known matter and forces Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 2
3 Particles beyond the Standard Model?! > Standard Model (SM) of particle physics describes basic properties of known matter and forces > SM not a complete and fundamental theory: No satisfactory explanation for values of its many parameters No reconciliation of gravity with quantum mechanics Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 3
4 Particles beyond the Standard Model?! > Standard Model (SM) of particle physics describes basic properties of known matter and forces > SM not a complete and fundamental theory: No satisfactory explanation for values of its many parameters No reconciliation of gravity with quantum mechanics No explanation of the origin of dark energy and dark matter Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 4
5 Particles beyond the Standard Model?! > Particle candidates of dark matter should feature Feeble interactions with SM and with themselves Non-relativistic momentum distribution at beginning of structure formation Stability on cosmological time scales > These features can be realised by Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), e.g. neutralino LSP in case of SUSY extension Very weakly interacting slim (in the sense of very light) particles (WISPs), e.g. axion in case of PQ extension Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 5
6 Worldwide hunt for dark matter candidates > WIMPy dark matter: Direct detection (WIMP scattering on nucleons) Indirect detection in cosmic rays Production of WIMPs at accelerators Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 6
7 Worldwide hunt for dark matter candidates > WIMPy dark matter: Direct detection (WIMP scattering on nucleons) Indirect detection in cosmic rays Production of WIMPs at accelerators > WISPy dark matter: Direct detection (WISP signals in microwave cavities) Indirect detection in astrophysics and cosmology Production of WISPs with lasers and detection via light-shiningthrough-a-wall Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 7
8 Strong CP problem and QCD axion > QCD allows for CP-violating term in Lagrangian, > Strong CP problem = lack of explanation why experimentally > Peccei-Quinn solution: introduce axion field a(x) as dynamical theta parameter,, enjoying a shift symmetry, broken only by anomalous couplings to gauge fields, > Effective theta parameter spontaneously relaxes to zero Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 8
9 Strong CP problem and QCD axion > Elementary particle excitation of axion field: QCD axion (Weinberg 78; Wilczek 78), mixing with pion > For large f_a, prime example of a WISP: very light, very weakly coupled, Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 9
10 Axion-like particles and hidden sector photons > In 4D field theoretic extensions of SM, axion field realised as phase of a complex SU(2)xU(1) singlet scalar field whose vev breaks a global anomalous chiral U(1)_PQ symmetry > At energies much below the symmetry breaking scale v_pq the lowenergy effective field theory is that of a (pseudo-)nambu-goldstone boson with decay constant > More axion-like particles (ALPs) may arise as Nambu-Goldstone bosons from the breaking of other global symmetries Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 10
11 Axion-like particles and hidden sector photons > Particular strong motivation for the existence of the axion and ALPs comes from string theory > 4D low-energy effective field theory emerging from string theory predicts natural candidates for the QCD axion, often even an `axiverse, containing many additional ALPs KK zero modes of 10D antisymmetric form fields, the latter belonging to the massless spectrum of the bosonic string Number of ALPs = number of cycles of 6D compactified manifold (Witten; Conlon; Cicoli, Goodsell, AR) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 11
12 Axion-like particles and hidden sector photons > Particular strong motivation for the existence of the axion and ALPs comes from string theory > 4D low-energy effective field theory emerging from string theory predicts natural candidates for the QCD axion, often even an `axiverse, containing many additional ALPs KK zero modes of 10D antisymmetric form fields, the latter belonging to the massless spectrum of the bosonic string Number of ALPs = number of cycles of 6D compactified manifold (Witten; Conlon; Cicoli, Goodsell, AR) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 12
13 Axion-like particles and hidden sector photons > Hidden sector photons gauge bosons of a U(1) gauge group under which SM particles are not charged are ubiquitous in string compactifications (Goodsell, AR) From breaking of the hidden E_8 gauge group in the heterotic string RR U(1)s arising as KK zero modes of closed string RR from fields Massless excitations of space-time filling D-branes wrapping cycles in the extra dimensions separated from the SM cycles Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 13
14 Axion-like particles and hidden sector photons > Some of these hidden U(1)s may remain unbroken down to very small scales. In this case, the dominant interaction with the SM will be through kinetic mixing with the photon, > Occasionally, there is also light hidden matter charged under the hidden U(1)s. After diagonalisation of the gauge kinetic terms by a shift, and a multiplicative charge renormalisation, one finds that the hidden sector matter particles acquire a minicharge, (Holdom) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 14
15 Hot regions in WISPy parameter space from theory > Masses and couplings of axions and other WISPs to light SM particles, in particular photons, can only be predicted in terms of more fundamental parameters if an UV completion of the low-energy theory is specified Embedding in GUT Embedding in string theory > Best motivated purely field theoretic UV completions yielding a QCD axion are the ones where the PQ symmetry is not imposed by hand, but in which it appears as an accidental or automatic consequence of local gauge invarince, renormalisability and the pattern of gauge symmetry breakdown (Georgi, Hall, Wise `81) > Then axion decay constant ~ scale of gauge symmetry breaking, which can be of order for GUTs with minimal Higgs sector down to for GUTs with non-minimal numbers of Higgses (Nilles, Raby; Dias et al.) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 15
16 Hot regions in WISPy parameter space from theory > Unification of gauge couplings in MSSM like extension of SM > Unification of gauge couplings in multiple Higgs extension of SM (Dias et al.) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 16
17 Hot regions in WISPy parameter space from theory > From string theoretic ultraviolet completions, one expects the axion decay constant ~ string scale M_s > Large Volume Scenario (LVS) of IIB string theory, QCD axion in classic window, which is phenomenologically particularly attractive, ALPs with (Cicoli, Goodsell, AR `12) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 17
18 Hot regions in WISPy parameter space from theory Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 18
19 Hot regions in WISPy parameter space from theory > Kinetic mixing is generated at one-loop by the exchange of heavy messengers that couple both to the visible U(1) as well as to the hidden U(1) > In purely field theoretic extensions of the SM in 4D, > Similar value expected from heterotic string theory (Goodsell, Ramos- Sanchez, AR) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 19
20 Hot regions in WISPy parameter space from theory > Type IIB string produces a much greater variety of possible values, e.g. mixing of a hidden U(1) associated with a large four cycle in an isotropic LVS compactification, cf. (Goodsell,Jaeckel,Redondo,AR) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 20
21 Hot regions in WISPy parameter space from theory Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 21
22 Astro/cosmo constraints/hints on WISPy parameters > Theoretically favored masses and couplings of axions and other WISPs span a very wide range in parameter space. Correspondingly, searches for their signatures have to exploit a variety of observational and experimental techniques, ranging from cosmology and astrophysics to terrestrial laboratory experiments. > Strongest bounds on their existence presently often come from their effects on stellar evolution, on the propagation of SM particles through astrophysical environments, and on big bang cosmology. Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 22
23 Astro/cosmo constraints/hints on WISPy parameters > Non-observation of an anomalous energy loss of Horizontal Branch (HB) stars due to ALP emission, (Raffelt) > Evidence for a non-standard energy loss in white dwarfs, consistent with the existence of a sub kev mass axion or ALP with (Isern et al.) > Absense of a gamma-ray burst due to axion/alp-photon conversion in coincidence with neutrinos from SN1987A (Brockway et al.;grifols et al) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 23
24 Astro/cosmo constraints/hints on WISPy parameters Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 24
25 Astro/cosmo constraints/hints on WISPy parameters > TeV photons from distant Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) should show aborption features due to e+e- pair production at the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 25
26 Astro/cosmo constraints/hints on WISPy parameters > TeV photons from distant Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) should show aborption features due to e+e- pair production at the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) > Not the case: (e.g. Horns,Meyer) Analysis of 50 spectra (HESS, MAGIC, Veritas): minimal EBL, absorption excluded by more than 4 sigma Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 26
27 Astro/cosmo constraints/hints on WISPy parameters > TeV photons from distant Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) should show aborption features due to e+e- pair production at the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) > Not the case: (e.g. Horns,Meyer) Analysis of 50 spectra (HESS, MAGIC, Veritas): minimal EBL, absorption excluded by more than 4 sigma > Possible explanation in terms of photon <-> ALP conversions in astrophysical magnetic fields (Roncadelli; Hooper et al.; Horns et al.) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 27
28 Astro/cosmo constraints/hints on WISPy parameters Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 28
29 WISPy dark matter > After inflation: Axion or ALP fields spatially homogenous, random initial value > Classical oscillations of axion/alp fields = bose condensates = extremely non-relativistic dark matter Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 29
30 WISPy dark matter > After inflation: Axion or ALP fields spatially homogenous, random initial value > Classical oscillations of axion/alp fields = bose condensates = extremely non-relativistic dark matter > Cosmic mass fraction in axion or ALP cold dark matter, (Preskill et al.; Abbott et al.; Dine et al.) (Arias et al.) Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 30
31 WISPy dark matter Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 31
32 Summary > Solution of strong CP problem gives particularly strong motivation for existence of QCD axion > Good reasons to expect also axion-like particles, light hidden sector gauge bosons as well as minicharged particles, in particular in string expired extensions of the SM > There are hot regions in WISPy parameter space arising from well motivated UV completions of the SM > These hot regions can be attacked by astrophysics, cosmology and terrestrial experiments Andreas Ringwald Searches for new particles with high power lasers Jülich, 24./25. Oktober 2012 Page 32
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